Bush, not security, may be the legislative center
It must be said that this is before the party whips go to work, but the GOP's plan to push "security" in Congress may flounder. Two stories:
The politics of legislating continued warrantless wiretapping seem to be growing increasingly muddled as six separate bills are now in committee, and now heavyweights McCain, Warner, and Graham have offered an alternative on military tribunals/Guantanamo trials.
Rove's midterm election plan was to push late for a focus on national security, (he said as much in that February speech,) but the assumption in that strategy was that the long vaunted Republican discipline could be maintained. That assumption appears to be failing as individual candidates look at their own '06 reelection and the '08 presidential race.
Does this effort turn into Republican on Republican violence?
The politics of legislating continued warrantless wiretapping seem to be growing increasingly muddled as six separate bills are now in committee, and now heavyweights McCain, Warner, and Graham have offered an alternative on military tribunals/Guantanamo trials.
Rove's midterm election plan was to push late for a focus on national security, (he said as much in that February speech,) but the assumption in that strategy was that the long vaunted Republican discipline could be maintained. That assumption appears to be failing as individual candidates look at their own '06 reelection and the '08 presidential race.
Does this effort turn into Republican on Republican violence?
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